Working with SharePoint’s REST API is pretty cool. Lately, I’ve been writing plenty of applications where the entire CRUD is involved; all using SharePoint lists behind the scenes. Meaning, the entire front end is entirely up to me to build. This way, I can use different JavaScript libraries and frameworks when building these interfaces. Note […]

So I had a recent task of designing an infowindow for a Google map. Just in case you do not know, Google maps API has the ability of overlaying some HTML on top of a marker, also known as an “infowindow“. The problem is, the default infowindow has limited options for HTML styling. View Demo […]

So I had another challenge at my work. You see, we use plenty of SharePoint based sites, and a lot of the markup that it outputs is table based – especially the contents of a list. Now this is fine for tabular data and such – but in mobile view, it renders horribly. The rows […]

So I’ve decided to do “mini” posts on certain topics that have always consumed me in my daily development tasks. And as many of you may know, Javascript is a language that is a bit more challenging to master. It’s such an expressive language that there are so many ways to accomplish things. One of […]

For those of you who have worked with SharePoint in the past, particularly with lists, CEWPs (Content Editor Web Part) and front end code, then you probably know that these lists do not work well in mobile. The markup is just too messy – invalid tags, divs inside spans, inline Javascripts, inline styles and even […]

When in comes to validating forms, there are basically two techniques you can use: 1) Server-side validation and 2) Client-side validation. Server-side validation is when form data is submitted, server analyzes then returns the user back to the form when items are invalid. Client-side on the other hand, is when Javascript analyses the fields before […]